{"id":138018,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/138018/?format=json","text_counter":466,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Michuki","speaker_title":"The Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources","speaker":{"id":183,"legal_name":"John Njoroge Michuki","slug":"john-michuki"},"content":"First, I would like to point out that my Ministry’s mandate is - and I seek the indulgence of hon. Members to follow what I will say - to monitor, protect, conserve, manage the environment and mineral resources through sustainable exploitation of resources for socio-economic development aimed at eradication of poverty, improving living standards and ensuring that a clean environment is sustained now and in future. That is the mandate of the Ministry that I head."}